OPX Biotechnologies (Boulder, CO) a development-stage biofuels company using synthetic biology to engineer the microbes as a bio-acrylic renewable fuel source, closed a $36.5M Series C financing. Participants include US Renewables Group, DBL Investors, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Altira Group and X/Seed Capital.
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Siluria Technologies (San Francisco, CA) a development-stage biofuels company focused on methane conversion, closed a $20M Series B financing. Participants include Wellcome Trust, Alloy Ventures, Arch Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Lux Capital and Presidio Ventures.

Enerkem (Canada) a development-stage waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, closes a $60M Series C financing. Participants include Valero Energy, Waste Management, Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures and Cycle Capital.
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Genomatica (San Diego, CA) a development-stage biofuel company focused on chemical intermediates derived from renewable feedstock without additional processing steps, closed a $45M Series D financing. Participants include VantagePoint Venture Partners, TPG Biotech, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Alloy Ventures, Bright Capital, Waste Management and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

SG Biofuels (Encinitas, CA) a development-stage synthetic biofuels company focused on the jatropha fuel source, closed a $9.4M Series A financing. Participants include Flint Hills Resources and Life Technologies.

Solazyme (San Francisco, CA) a development-stage synthetic biology company focused on algal biodiesel and industrial chemicals, closed a $52M Series D financing. Participants include Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Braemar Energy Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Roda Group, Harris and Harris Group, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Zygote Ventures, Chevron Technology Venture Investments and San-Ei Gen.

Green Biologics (United Kingdom) a development-stage biotechnology fermentation company focused on bio-butanol for biochemicals and biofuels, closed a $6.1M Series B financing. Participants include Capricorn Venture Partners, Morningside Ventures, Carbon Trust Investment Limited and Oxford Capital Partners.

Coskata (Warrenville, IL) a development-stage bacterial fermentation biofuels company closed a $23.7M Series D financing. Participants include Total, Blackstone Group, Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, General Motors, GreatPoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures.

Virent Energy Systems (Madison, WI) a development-stage biofuels company focused on catalytically transforming soluble biomass into hydrocarbons, closed a $46.4M Series C financing. Participants include Shell and Cargill Ventures.

Amyris Biotechnologies (Emeryville, CA) a development-stage biofuels company focused on metabolic pathway transformations of plant-based feedstocks into different isoprenoids, closed a $47.8M Series D financing. Participants include Temasek Holdings.

Joule Biotechnologies (Cambridge, MA) a development stage company focused on the conversion of carbon dioxide into ethanol, closed a $30M Series B financing. Participants include Flagship Ventures.

EdenIQ (Visalia, CA) a commercial-stage biofuel company focused on lignocellulosic material to boost ethanol yields from corn and sugarcane, closed a $12.4M Series B financing. Participants include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Westly Group, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Cyrus Capital Partners, Angeleno Group, Element Partners, Morgan Stanley, Advanced Equities, Omninet and Nimes Capital.

Genomatica (San Diego, CA) a development-stage biofuel company focused on methods for adaptive evolution of microbes to achieve optimal performance under process conditions to produce industrial chemicals from carbohydrates, closed a $15M Series C financing. Participants include TPG Biotech, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Alloy Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.